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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- An engineer trainee was charged with public indecency after a passenger said he was masturbating in front of her in an incident that stopped the train and caused a police manhunt Tuesday in Fairfield County, Conn., the Metropolitan Transportation Authority police said Wednesday.

"Obviously this was an isolated incident," said Marge Anders, a spokesman for the MTA, adding that Metro-North trains are safe for commuters.

The train was stopped at the Fairfield station shortly before 9 a.m., and all the cars were searched, police said.

Officers then
began searching the nearby area
and found Manny Ramos, 34, who matched the victim's description on the Unquowa Road bridge over the station, police said. Ramos, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was arrested by Fairfield police and handed over to MTA police.